Bethlehem Bicycle Cooperative eNews – Saturday April 28, 2012

The Bethlehem Bicycle Cooperative (BBC) is open for Members and Guests every Thursday from 5-9pm and Saturday from 8AM to 4PM. We are located at 14 West Raspberry in beautiful, downtown Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Steve traveled alone on the Bicycle Heaven Ride this morning (it was only 40 degrees out there so you all are forgiven for skipping this one in favor of the same ride at 2PM). Steve bought some bee baum for his back yard and got the paperwork to file to have his back yard certified as Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. You can find out more about Wildlife Habitat certification www.nwf.org/gardenforwildlife

Native Plant Bee Baum

Spring Beauty

On the way to the Native Plant Sale Steve took a detour over Fahy (New Street) Bridge to see the new Bikes May Use Full Lane signs put up by the City of Bethlehem. Thank you Public Works Department for continuing to make our lives as cyclists easier and safer than ever.

CAT members using BBC Tools with mechanic assistance:

Frank Pavlick’s Rear Wheel

Frank Pavlick visited the shop and talked with Mike Brown about making an appointment so Frank can oversee a major overhaul of Mike’s bike. Mike is riding across the U.S. from Virginia to Oregon May 19th-Aug. 9th. find out more mikesbikeride2012.blogspot.com

Donations:

Visitors:

Pat Corpora reserved a couple of bikes to ride the towpath with visitors to Bethlehem.

Scott and Lee worked on several Bike Library bikes. They also packaged up various donated parts and parts stripped from bikes that can not be used safely for storage for future library or member bike repair or upgrade.